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by zeveb 6y ago
As martyrdoms go, being downvoted is pretty tolerable. Beats being shot or tortured. Heck, even missing out on job opportunities is not really that big a deal. (N.b. for those unfamiliar with the term: 'martyr' comes the Greek w
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> Not wrapping should be the default for every editor. AFAICT, it is not the default for any editor. It appears to be the default with emacs — at least, hard-wrap off appears to be the default. Soft-wrap is on, but … I can't imagin
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Footnotes are great! There's something wonderful about the affordance of a digressive paragraph at the foot of the page. I do not need to break the flow of reading, just flick my eyes down, read and return to the body text. What are
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by zeveb 6y ago
The Floyd case happened after months of people being locked in their homes, unable to lead active and healthy social lives. While not as bad as solitary confinement, 2020 has been a psychologically grueling year. Floyd's death was th
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> It's important to point out here that what you're reading about is people being tortured to confess on the purpose of a watch. It's important to point out that you have absolutely no evidence of anyone being tortured to
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by zeveb 6y ago
> Modern society is highly efficient, but also highly susceptible to disruption. That's something my wife & I have been discussing recently. She pointed out that traditional family structures have more slack built into them, wh
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by zeveb 6y ago
> There's an entire class of tooling to make sure that GPL-tainted software isn't distributed Amazing the lengths people go to in order to avoid sharing and treating others well! Imagine if they did the opposite: imagine if th
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by zeveb 6y ago
This is really awesome, the sort of thing I love to see on HN! Thanks for writing & posting it.
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> You mean like Beats or Apple AirPods? They don’t collect user data at all. They may not, but Beats and Apple — the former is a subsidiary of the latter — lock one into a proprietary ecosystem in which your data is not your data (just t
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by zeveb 6y ago
It's a real shame that both XML and JSON eclipsed the real data format for the ages: S-expressions. I hope it's only temporary, though: there really is no good reason the prefer JSON other than everyone else using it, and if on
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by zeveb 6y ago
Or like bidis, the wonderful flavoured cigarettes banned by Mr. Obama's execrable FDA in 2014, to rhyme with 'needy.' Man, I miss them.
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GNU: A Heuristic for Bad Cryptography(soatok.blog)
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by zeveb 6y ago
In the general case of an old newspaper which may not be scanned and online, a URI (i.e., an indentifier ) is called for; in the case of an old newspaper which has been scanned, a URL is called for. The distinction is that an identifier
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by zeveb 6y ago
> And that the US were the invading force. No, the North Vietnamese were the invading force. They invaded South Vietnam, and after the Paris Peace Accords they invaded it again and conquered it.
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by zeveb 6y ago
Well, they were defending the freedoms of South Vietnam, which was a sovereign republic which was being invaded by another country. They were resisting international Communism, which had a goal of establishing Communist governments in ever
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by zeveb 6y ago
Yipes, the future is now. I wonder what this will do to opinion journalism and society. Is it possible to have too many ideas? Will we get tied up trying to decide between too many options?
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by zeveb 6y ago
Depending on how the HTTP library works, one might be able to return an error to the user, but preserve all the other call state in an open thread, and later on join it from an interactive debugger … perhaps even a Lisp debugger running in
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by zeveb 6y ago
> With hindsight, we see the irish nationalist was less conflicted than Orwell had been willing to admit to himself. Or am I missing something important, given that this was written in 1945 and not 1922? Ireland spent the Second World Wa
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by zeveb 6y ago
> neo-liberals, those who fled the obvious negative connotations of conservatism and its association with racism, sexism, etc. in the guise of conserving "values", but still sympathetic to those beliefs in private. I think that
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by zeveb 6y ago
> I heard about Vanessa Guillén, an Army soldier murdered by a CO The other soldier mentioned in that article was the same rank, not a commanding officer (CO). In no way diminishes the seriousness of the apparent murder, of course.
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by zeveb 6y ago
There is probably an interesting article to be written about how the pursuit of superficial qualities harms deep qualities. E.g. rock bands of the 70s tended to be quite ugly, but they made great music, while bands today look very good, bu
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by zeveb 6y ago
Depends on the base you use for orders of magnitude. In base 10, 100→5,000 ms is 1.7 orders of magnitude, but in base 2 (which I think is useful because we intuitively understand that twice as long or half as long make a big difference) it
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> I believe an influence was actually an old system that used smalltalk in the 90ies at JPM. Imagine the benefit to the business had they just stuck with Smalltalk the whole time! It is remarkable how many businesses could have been qui
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> we tend, as a community, to focus on knowledge of tools and technologies over business results. Ouch, that is both damning and true.
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> I saw a presentation by one of the lead designers around the time that it was introduced and he certainly made a good case for how the older interface had accumulated way too much cruft. I have also seen well-intentioned arguments for
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> Early reddit was a really fun place. Yup. I've had a reddit account since r/politics was relatively balanced! It was fun and awesome. And now I am seriously thinking of deleting my account altogether. It is just not worth
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by zeveb 6y ago
> Have you had a look at Oberon? No, but it is on my list of things to look at when I get some free time. It sounds like another one of those tantalising might-have-beens. One of my retirement projects will be to write an OS as it shoul
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by zeveb 6y ago
I was making a pun: 'acme' means the highest point. But I also disagree with you: acme is strictly more powerful than vi, and vim is just a Greenspunned Emacs. Greenspun's Tenth Rule holds that 'any sufficiently complic
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I think we need to reverse the unconstitutional Reynolds v. Sims decision which forbids the states from being set up like the federal government, with one house elected in proportion to population and one house elected geographically. The
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It is definitely an interesting editor, and it has some neat ideas. But when I compare the masterpiece that is Acme on Plan 9 with the — frankly — cobbled-together heap that is Emacs … I would prefer to use Emacs, because Emacs does more f

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